While working with legacy projects, I often encountered this anti-pattern of misusing repositories. Instead of easy-to-inject service, projects are locked into a service locator. This makes code hard to upgrade and locks your project heavily to the Doctrine ODM packages. And there are plenty of them. Each extra package bites off its share of upgrade costs. Today, we look at how to refactor the ODM service locator to independent services and separate your project from ODM. We also get a few ad...
